Bio
Dr. Robin Cisco is a board certified General Surgeon and fellowship-trained Endocrine Surgeon. She specializes in surgery of the thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands and has expertise in lymph node dissection for thyroid cancer. Dr Cisco received her medical degree at Duke University before moving to Stanford for General Surgery residency. During her residency, she completed a two-year research fellowship in Surgical Oncology, with a focus on cancer immunology.

After residency, she completed an Endocrine Surgery fellowship with the internationally recognized UCSF Division of Endocrine Surgery. She is the author of multiple publications related to Endocrine Surgery and Surgical Oncology and has an interest in minimally invasive approaches to thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal surgery.

Dr. Cisco focuses on providing outstanding surgical care in an environment that is supportive of her patients and their families. She enjoys patient education and preoperative counseling, and seeks to lessen the anxiety that often comes with a recommendation for surgery. She currently sees patients both in San Jose at Stanford's Cancer Center South Bay and in Palo Alto in the Head and Neck Oncology clinic.

Current Research and Scholarly Interests
My research interests are focused on minimizing the impact of breast cancer from a diagnostic and therapuetic standpoint. Breast MRI is a powerful tool to facilitate the screening for and staging of breast cancer, and can be valuable adjunct to guide breast surgery. Oncoplastic surgical techniques optimize cosmesis after breast cancer surgery. Accelerated radiotherapy after lumpectomy decreases radiotherapy treatment times from 6 weeks to just 1 to 5 days.